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Key Account Management report available November 2008
Key Account Management (KAM) is one of the most critical roles for any organisation and requires a complex mix of sales and business skills. The adoption of a good KAM strategy offers many organisations the best opportunity to maximise the revenue potential of their most important customers.
This involves detailed research and analysis of the dynamics within the key account and of their market, as well as the ability to demonstrate how and by what means the relationships will enhance over time the Net Present Value (future free cash flow) for both organisations.
Candidates for Key Account Management roles require a wide range of capabilities to perform this role including the ability to:
Strategic Selling is the level below Key Account Management and has many similarities, but has less rigour attached to the analysis of 'customer lifetime value' than Key Account Management. Strategic selling proactively positions for the customer a positive business outcome to his current business problem, where he has not yet identified how to resolve this business problem for himself. This involves sophisticated research and analysis of the market dynamics in the customer's marketplace to 1) alert the customer to challenges over the horizon, 2) define with the customer the potential problems presented by those challenges and 3) craft solutions to those problems and meet them head-on before they arise.